Match-safe.



PATENTED FEB. l0, 1903.

W. A. PATTBN.

MATCH SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.15, 1902.

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MATCH SAFE. APPLIOATION FILED MAB. 15, 1902.

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UNITED' STATES PATENT GFFICE.`

WILIJIAM A. PATTEN, OF LESUEUR, MINNESOTA.

MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,060, dated February10, 1903.

Application filed March 15, 1902. Serial No. 98,287. (No modelJ To auwwm it 711/002/ @H/007%: To hold back the column of matches, or, in' Beit known that I, WILLIAM A. PATTEN, a other Words, to prevent the samefrom falling citizen of the United States, residing rat Lein too largequantities onto the retaining-tin- 55 sueur, in the county of Lesueurand State of gers 2, I provide the front plate of the safe Minnesota,have invented certain new and withadepending and inwardly or rearwardlyuseful Improvements in Match-Safes; and I turned choke-plate 5,preferably afforded do hereby declare the following to be a full, by apair of prongs stamped from or formed clear, and exact description ofthe invention, as apart of the blank from which the safe is 6o such aswill enable others skilled in the art to formed. In the front plate ofthe safe are 1o which it appertains to make and use the same. preferablycut one or more slits 6, through My present invention relates tomatchwhich a match or pointed instrument may be safes, and has for itsobject to improve the inserted to force the matches downward in same inthe several particulars hereinafter casetheyshould become clogged. Theseslits 65 noted. further serve to show the height of the col- To theabove ends the invention consists umn of matches in the safe. In theupper of the novel devices and combination of deedge of the back plateof the safe is one or vices hereinafter described,and defined in themore perforations 7, which adapt the safe to claim. be hung from thewall on a nail 8. 7o

The invention is illustrated in the accom- To fill the match-safe, rsttake an ordinary zo panying drawings, wherein like characters box ofmatches, and after having broken out indicate like parts throughout theseveral one end thereof hold the same at a proper views. angle toprevent the spilling-of the matches,

Figure l is a view in front elevation showand slide the same into thesafe. Then turn 75 ing a match-safe designed in accordance with the safeinto a vertical position and withdraw my invention. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the box. The column of matches within the the saidmatch-safe. Fig. 3 is a vertical secsafe will then be substantially asindicated tion on the line ac3 0130i Fig. l, and Fig. -t is in Fig. 3,by reference to which it will be a plan view showing the blank orstamped noted that the so-called choke-plate 5 con- 8o sheet from whichthe match-safe is formed. tracts the column of matches at a point in 3oThe body of the match-sate is of rectanguline therewith and prevents thesaid matches lar form, as indicated by the numeral l. It from completelyfilling the pocket aorded by is open at its top and bottom; but at itsbotthe retaining-fingers 2 and side guard-plates tom the matches aresupported by a pair of 3. As :is obvious, one or more matches may 85laterally -spaced retainingfingers 2, which at any time be easilyremoved from the safe are formed as extensions of the rear plate ofsimply by passing the fingers into engagethe safe and are curved firstdownward and ment with the same through the passage left forward andthen upward, so that their outer between the so-called retaining-fingers2 and upper extremities project outward of and and forcing the sameupward through the 9o above the lower extremity of the front platethroat 4t.

4o of the safe, as best shown in Fig. 3. The The match-safe in its bestform is formed sides of the safe are extended downward, outof metal,such as thin sheettin, and is ward, and upward, as indicated at 3, toform formed from a single blank. This blank in side guard-plates to holdthe stack of matches its flat form is shown in Fig. 4, and in this 95againstendwisemovement. The outward and view the various portions of theblank are upwardly extended portions of the guardmarked with thosecharacters which indicate plates 3 are soldered or otherwise rigidlysethe parts which they form in the completed cured to the outer edges ofthe retaining-finsafe. It will be noted that the upwardly-progers 2, soas to rigidly support said lingers. jecting portions of the so-calledside guard- 10o As best shown in Fig. 3, an outlet-throat is plates7 arecut out of the lower portion of the 5o formed between the lower end ofthe front front plate of the safe and serve to separate plate of thematch-safe and the upwardlythe depending prongs of theso-calledchokecurved ends of the ingers 2. plate 5 tfrom the blank. This eects aneconomy in the material used. It will be noted that the body of the safeis formed from a blank with a single seam at one corner edge thereof.The match safe above described may be thus made from thin sheet metal,Such as tin, at a very small cost and is not only efficient for thepurposes had in View, but is strong and durable.

From What has been said it will be linderstood that the match-safe abovedescribed is capable of considerable modification within the scope of myinvention, as herein set forth and claimed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

A metal match-safe formed from a single blank and involving the body l,laterallyspaced retaining-fingers 2, side guard-plates 3 and choke-plate5, said retaining-fingers and guard-plates being rigidly securedtogether and extended outward and upward from said choke-plate, to aordthe throat 4, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM A. PATTEN.

Witnesses:

JOHN TAYLOR, P. W. GORRIE.

